In an era when its is increasingly encouraged to share source-codes, the training of students, particularly information technology students, faces several challenges in communicating aspects of academic honesty -- precisely authenticity of authorship. The genuineness of this issue has implications primarily in the integral formation of students with further implications in businesses which could face lawsuits due to a wrong attitude of one employee. This qualitative research explores an issue which is commonly overlooked and misconstrued even in academic circles. The findings unveil that today's technology students are more inclined to an open and flexible notion of code-plagiarism. The paper highlights a critical implication to the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework and concludes with recommendations for university ethics boards as well as possible future research directions.